Tom Ridge
Staff Engineer at Culture Amp
Adelaide, South Australia
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RockstarTom Ridge is a Staff Engineer based in Adelaide with 17 years of experience helping teams and companies deliver reliable, high-impact software through coaching, technical leadership, and strong delivery practices. He blends hands-on programming in OCaml, Go, and Python with cloud expertise on AWS, and contributes to notable open-source projects like Irmin, a Git-inspired distributed database. At Culture Amp he progressed from engineer to staff, leading remote teams, hiring and mentoring engineers, and delivering scalable, performant systems that reduced support load and improved customer outcomes. He emphasizes psychological safety, alignment, and tight feedback loops to unlock team potential while still shipping pragmatic technical solutions. An ex-academic, he brings a research-minded attention to correctness and maintainability that shows up in tests, refactors, and interface improvements across codebases.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (7)
storage10
databases10
functional-programming10
database10
ocaml10
testing9
git9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mirage/irmin
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
Irmin is a distributed database that follows the same design principles as Git
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:128 reviews, 93 commits, 18 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on enhancing the Irmin database, focusing on features related to versioning and storage. Their contributions included implementing tests for store version upgrades and refactoring existing code. They also made improvements to internal interfaces and utilized OCaml formatting to maintain code quality and consistency. Furthermore, the user made several improvements by resolving typos and minor code improvements across multiple files.
design-principlesprinciplesocamldistributed-databasedatabase
tomjridge/ocamldocs
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:124 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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